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![]() ![]() In a three-year period between 19, more than 80 flights originating in the US were skyjacked and directed to fly to Cuba. Anybody could walk into any airport in the country, buy a plane ticket with cash, and bring anything they wanted on board.Īlso during this time, the United States had a very tense relationship with Cuba, its island neighbor south of Florida. You didn’t even need proper identification to purchase a ticket. Remember, this was at a time when domestic flights didn’t require baggage checks or metal detectors of any kind. In that vein, let’s talk about skyjackings and why we don’t really hear about them much today.ĭuring the 1960s and 70s, airplane hijacking (known as “skyjacking”) was fairly rampant in the United States. After all, who are we to judge the events of yesterday by today’s “enlightened” standards without knowing the full details of what life was like during that time. Now, as with most retellings of historical events, I like to begin by providing a little context. Thousands of people have searched for evidence in the case, trying to solve the only unsolved American skyjacking…ever. Cooper, the myth, by leaping from a perfectly good airplane and right into the pages of Washington State, and truly, national history. Who was Dan Cooper really? Did he survive his fateful fall from the sky? And whatever happened to all that money? It was exactly 50 years ago this month that Dan Cooper, the man, became D.B. They didn’t yet know that that bump meant their ordeal of the past several hours was just about over that they, along with their flight engineer and flight attendant, would live to see another day-because the man known only as Dan Cooper had just exited the plane by leaping from the rear staircase in mid-flight, with a parachute and $200,000 strapped to his body, never to be seen again. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Stitcher | RSS | Moreįeeling a slight bump up in the cockpit, the pilots of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 looked at each other nervously as rain pelted against their windshield at around 200 miles per hour…a relatively slow speed for a Boeing 727. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed ![]()
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